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SIMBAD: A diary

Hi! We are Carlota Alcubilla and Nerea Alonso, and we have been working for the last few months with an internship at Quasar on Vessel Detection using Multispectral Images from the Sentinel-2 Satellite mission, specifically focusing on the southwest region of Mallorca. During our internship, our main task was to […]


New Generation of Proposal Handling System (PHS)
for ESA Missions: Evolution of XMM-Newton Software

Last week we attended the Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XXXIII in Tucson (Arizona), were Jose Antonio Quero from Quasar presented his work on the development of the new generation of Proposal Handling System (PHS) for ESA missions. In the latest years, the evolution of the ESA XMM-Newton PHS […]


Open scientist position to work for the User Support Group of ESA’s X-ray mission XMM-Newton

Quasar is looking for a scientist to work for the XMM-Newton Users Support Group (USG). The scientists working in the XMM-Newton Users Support Group (USG) support the scientific users of the mission from proposal submission until they analyse their data for scientific interpretation. In general terms, the candidate will be […]


Air and Sea Traffic Risk Avoidance Model

February 2023 – To lower the risk of human casualties and infrastructural damage on terrestrial assets, Share My Space was selected by ESA to conceptualize an end-to-end software able to model space operations failures’ impact on air and sea traffic. Terrestrial risks presented by explosive or destructive failures from spacecrafts, […]


Industrial Doctorate: Development of forest wildfire risk maps in real time using remote sensing techniques for the Comunidad de Madrid

Forest fires have become a pressing issue in today’s world due to the growing frequency and severity of these disasters. In response to this challenge, Quasar has launched an industrial PhD project to develop a fire risk model. The project awarded by the Industrial Doctorate program of the Comunidad de […]


SIMBAD Product Presentations

We have been working hard over 2022 in expanding our Products and Capabilities in the area of Remote Sensing using satellite data. Not only have we released a full catalogue of Products and Applications, but we have created a set of presentations that we hope give you a good idea […]


Opportunity open for a Remote Sensing Data Scientist position in Quasar Science Resources to work for SIMBAD

Earth Observation (EO) applications and services are rapidly increasing. Sentinel missions are being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Copernicus Program, a European effort to monitor the Earth and its different habitats. Each Sentinel mission is based on a constellation of two satellites to fulfil revisit and […]


Quasar is looking for a Software Engineer profile to work with the SIMBAD team

Earth Observation (EO) applications and services are rapidly increasing. Sentinel missions are being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Copernicus Program, a European effort to monitor the Earth and its different habitats. Each Sentinel mission is based on a constellation of two satellites to fulfil revisit and […]


Yebes Observatory

On the 19th of November 2020 an agreement was signed between the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and the Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (CNIG) for the execution of the project “Infraestructuras para la actualización de los radiotelescopios del Observatorio de Yebes (YNART)” co-financed by the FEDER Spanish programme 2014-2020. […]